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by mquander 15y ago
The way the author writes, it's as if he thinks there is some superior alternative that Khan is displacing. Last I checked, there ain't. Fact is, Khan's videos are considered good because the actual history education that most students tak
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by mquander 15y ago
I find it mildly irritating that a guy writes a several-page article explaining individual, specific performance problems together with measurements and suggested fixes, and you respond that you're sure there's no issue because Google is sm
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by mquander 15y ago
I don't think that the majority opinion amongst "hackers" (as in, the general programmer audience here) agrees with Stallman in a meaningful sense. A majority might sort of prefer free software, but don't care to fight for it very much;
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by mquander 15y ago
I more or less agree with you. My original comment was sort of tongue-in-cheek :-) I've heard other people make that same proposition with apparent sincerity, though.
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by mquander 15y ago
The government's PR branch has really done a number on you. It's absolutely legal to host or mirror Wikileaks, under any reasonable interpretation of the law; remember that the only way that the government can dig up a case on Assange is t
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by mquander 15y ago
I don't think this hypothetical person is going to be a big emacs fan either.
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by mquander 15y ago
Can someone older or wiser than me discuss what the idea is behind "only one return per method" in imperative code? I agree completely that it makes many methods much more difficult to read, and I've never understood why it was taught as a
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by mquander 15y ago
I would point out that by sending lottery money to schools, we're (to some degree) incentivizing schools to produce mathematically illiterate people. One might say the same for sending criminals' money to schools.
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by mquander 15y ago
Obvious counterexample: me@localhost. (Not that this is a useful counterexample in the context of a form submission.)
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by mquander 15y ago
I don't understand what I am supposed to take away from this link. I basically agree with the top-rated answer; that approach looks to be about how I'd do it. Is there something unusual here? EDIT: This comment was written at a time when
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by mquander 15y ago
I always get double freaked out when I see requirements like that, because I assume that the "special characters" restriction is required for some homebrewed crap rot13-style idea they have for obfuscating the passwords instead of hashing t
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by mquander 15y ago
EOM? Ever since the start of time I have been using n/t for this. n/t = no text.
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by mquander 15y ago
Look, I love the law as much as my fellow citizen but this is ridiculous. If you don't like the restrictions placed on you by Amazon, don't obey them! Just break the DRM and give your books to whoever you please. Until Amazon actually
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by mquander 15y ago
It doesn't usually make any sense to speak of getter methods in Clojure. Records are immutable after construction.
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by mquander 15y ago
I really have no idea what you are talking about. The rules[1] explicitly give some examples of when titles should be changed, and remark that title changes in general are fine if they aren't overly editorialized. [1] http://ycombinator.c
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by mquander 15y ago
I think the existing title is significantly better than the rather unenlightening "Nanolaw with Daughter," and I don't think it's better to discourage the "editorialization" of titles (when by editorialization you just mean changing them.)
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by mquander 15y ago
I think the source of the disagreement here is that you use the word "revolutionary" to mean "easier, more convenient."
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by mquander 15y ago
Wow, their PR guys did a number on you. Not only did they not encourage it, they threatened lawsuits! "Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products," a company spokesperson told CNET. "With Kinect, Microsoft built in numero
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by mquander 15y ago
I was at Clojure Conj last October and in a room of 200 or 300 Clojure programmers, it looked like probably 70% of everyone had a MBP running usually OS X, sometimes Ubuntu, and the other 30% (myself included -- although I dual-boot Windows
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by mquander 15y ago
I think it's an exceptionally rude comment. There's no way that the fellow is going to find it helpful in any way, and it's seriously demeaning to offer the unasked-for "advice" that their hobby is probably not worth pursuing further, and
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by mquander 15y ago
I agree with this. You can buy in or bow out, but the game isn't going away.
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by mquander 15y ago
Consider the following three approaches of communicating that you are good at iOS development: 1) You write interesting blog posts about iOS development and discuss it with other people working on related projects. 2) You write apps and ope
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by mquander 15y ago
The people I find interesting are all over the board at self-promotion! It's barely correlated. That's the point. The self-promotion is completely unhelpful in directing my attention to anything useful, but it is designed specifically to
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by mquander 15y ago
I reject that set of skills not because I don't value communicating, but because I think it's a terrible way of communicating. The world has an unbelievable, enormous, tedious, completely indefensible surplus of self-promotion and marketin
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by mquander 15y ago
No, he spends time discussing a variety of explanations, the least of which is any kind of conscious racism. If you expand the part that you elided, it says: Part of the insidious nature of the Bamboo Ceiling is that it does not seem to b
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by mquander 15y ago
You cherry-picked one quote, but he spent the entire rest of the piece making your exact point.
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by mquander 15y ago
OK, but has there ever been a "prophet" of any field of mathematics who sparked people's interest like Hawking or Sagan? (I disagree that Feynman had this impact.) I don't think there has been and I don't think that there will be until we
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by mquander 15y ago
I am personally not interested in seeing a front page with a rebuttal of every tech-related rant that someone posts on their blog. I am interested in seeing articles written by someone with relevant expertise talking about something in a r
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by mquander 15y ago
I take it that you're imagining a case like this: try { var result = mightFail(); } catch { handleError(); } finally { cleanup(); } print(result) // we don't want to allow this That's true, the scoping protec
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by mquander 15y ago
Well, it's an awkward solution, because exceptions have this general problem of blowing away everything you're doing, and it's only a solution for this one case. The solution to this problem that makes sense to me is either conditions and r

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